How to format your references using the Array citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Array. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

Macilwain C. World view: Talking the talk. Nature 2010;465:867.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Moore JS, Kraft ML. Chemistry. Synchronized self-assembly. Science 2008;320:620–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Suzuki G, Shimazu N, Tanaka M. A yeast prion, Mod5, promotes acquired drug resistance and cell survival under environmental stress. Science 2012;336:355–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hansen CJ, Esposito L, Stewart AIF, Colwell J, Hendrix A, Pryor W, et al. Enceladus’ water vapor plume. Science 2006;311:1422–5.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

Mazze RS, Strock ES, Bergenstal RM, Criego A, Cuddihy R, Langer O, et al. Staged Diabetes Management. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Rogers JA, Ghaffari R, Kim D-H, editors. Stretchable Bioelectronics for Medical Devices and Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Frischkorn C, Wolf M, Höfer U, Güdde J, Saalfrank P, Nest M, et al. Ultrafast dynamics of photoinduced processes at surfaces and interfaces. In: Kühn O, Wöste L, editors. Analysis and Control of Ultrafast Photoinduced Reactions, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007, p. 387–484.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Array.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. How Electric Fish Evolved Shocker of an Organ Six Times. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-electric-fish-evolved-shocker-organ-six-times/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Bridge Safety: Structural Soundness of the Zilwaukee Bridge. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Almasaari AH. Arab American women’s identity crises in Mohja Kahf’s “The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf” and Laila Halaby’s “West of the Jordan.” Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

Walsh MW. Puerto Rico Debt Bill Takes Step. New York Times 2016:B3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Array
ISSN (print)	2590-0056
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